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Gender, Sex and Sexualities

Description

Criminology in Australia and New Zealand is internationally renowned for leading research across a range of areas relating to gender identity and sexuality. The Gender, Sex & Sexualities thematic group aims to bring together scholars, students, activists and practitioners working across all aspects of criminology that relate to gender identity and sexuality. The group strives to provide an inclusive and productive space for driving critical, theoretical, empirical, and applied thinking.

We welcome people at all stages of their careers whose work focuses on areas including, but not limited to:

  • Gender-based violence (including sexual and domestic violence)
  • Masculinities
  • Legal and discursive regulation of gender, sex and sexualities (incl. emerging identities)
  • Trans and gender-diverse lives
  • Indigenous sexual and gender identities
  • Sex work and pornography
  • The regulation of sexual practices (normative and non-normative)
  • The legal production/construction and regulation of sex, gender and sexualities
  • LGBTQ+ communities’ experiences of the criminal legal system
  • Queer criminology
  • Theories of genders and sexualities
  • Research methods for exploring and examining genders and sexualities
  • Advocacy, activism and social justice

Aims and Objectives

  • Foster collaborative, collegial and cross-disciplinary relationships between scholars, students and activists in the field;
  • Support the career development of early career researchers;
  • Support academic development of methodologies and methodological expertise;
  • Enhance understandings of how gender identity, sexuality and sex shape crime and criminal legal responses;
  • Develop pedagogical practices and teaching materials that strengthen the relationship between gender, sexuality,  crime and justice;
  • Promote criminological research and theory using a gendered, intersectional, and/or queer lens;
  • Organise and promote ANZSOC conference sessions that relate to gender identity, sexualities and crime, and other events throughout the year
  • Enhance the profile and impact of work relating to gender identity and sexuality in criminology.

Convenor

Dr Bianca Fileborn, University of Melbourne
Dr Rachel Loney-Howes, University of Wollongong

Membership List:

Last updated February 2025

  • Lynzi Armstrong, Victoria University, Wellington
  • Nicole Asquith, University of Tasmania
  • Grace Barham, University of Newcastle
  • Elena Cama, University of New South Wales
  • Angela Dwyer, University of Tasmania
  • Justin Ellis, University of Newcastle
  • Hannah Fairlamb, University of Melbourne
  • Kate Fitzgibbon, Monash University
  • Andy Kaladelfos, University of Newcastle
  • Chloe Keel, Griffith University
  • Samantha Keene, Victoria University Wellington
  • Dave McDonald, University of Melbourne
  • Samantha O’Donnell, University of Melbourne
  • Cassie Pedersen, Federation University
  • Emma Russell, Latrobe University
  • Rahul Sinha Roy, Latrobe University

We, the members of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC), acknowledge the traditional custodians of Australia and the sovereignty of the Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand.

ANZSOC would like to acknowledge the ongoing Traditional Custodians of the lands for which our constituents conduct their teaching, learning, and research. We would like to acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and the lands, now called Australia, continue to belong to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the Traditional custodians of the lands. ANZSOC would like to pay respects to the Elders who have passed on the legacy of knowledge and culture to the future generations and acknowledge that the future generations hold the hope, the stories and the continued knowledge for current and emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. May this knowledge through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing guide you with wisdom and courage.

ANZSOC also recognises iwi Māori and their unceded right to tino rangatiratanga (sovereignty) and their expression of mana motuhaka (self-determination). We acknowledge mātauranga Māori (Māori ways of being and knowing) informs both traditional and contemporary knowledge production and its ability to enhance our collective futures.

The Association acknowledges the consequences and harms that continue to be inflicted by the criminal justice systems of Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand on Indigenous peoples in the region and seeks through its activities to address these harms and to work to prevent them from continuing in the future.

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  • Dr Matthew Morgan, ANZSOC Secretary
  • Thomas More Law School, ACU
    Level 1, Building 203
    1100 Nudgee Road, Banyo, QLD, 4014
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